Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music
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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 030206645026
EAN: 0030206645026
ASIN: B00008J2LF
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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Label: Varese Sarabande Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Soundtrack Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 030206645026 EAN: 0030206645026 ASIN: B00008J2LF Release Date: 2003-03-11 |
The Hunted (Score)
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In this tale of a Special Forces officer pursuing one of his trainees running amok in the civilian world, William Friedkin tackles Hollywood's one-on-one chase genre with typical skill and style. But given the film's scope and built-in expectations, budding young composer Brian Tyler (<I>The Children of Dune</I>, <I>Darkness Falls</I>) was given the task of forging a near wall-to-wall soundscape of musical tension and suspense, a job that's produced veritable reams of McAction music cues in recent years. Tyler doesn't so much reinvent those cliches in his powerful, rhythmically charged work here as infuse them with some welcome new musical curiosity and intriguing flashes of orchestral color. One can sense the composer pushing his thematic constraints throughout; even his uses of electronic coloration have a fresh, edgy quality that further sets his work apart from the norm. If the composer and his co-orchestrators occasionally display their affection for Bernard Herrmann in their tense, timbre-expansive work here, it seems a welcome acceptance of the master's challenge to meet the constraints of genre with determined musical vision. <I>--Jerry McCulley</I>Customer Reviews:
A thinking person's action score.......2006-06-28
A different type of action score........2003-09-02
Average at best, hard to get into.......2003-05-07
The presentation (though not Brian Tyler's fault) feels rushed, like they had an intern put the cover insert together as an afterthought. Much more important, however, is what's in the 1's and 0's. It's hard not to compare this album to Hans Zimmer, particularly works like Peacemaker, Backdraft, & The Rock. But, ironically, if that's the case, then "The Hunted" doesn't even compare. It certainly has its moments, notably tracks 2, 4, 7, & 11, but not a lot else to make it stand out. This album has several heart-pumping action spots, with some quieter mystery & tension moments thrown in. All in all, there just isn't enough of it. The songs are all very short, as is the album itself. For me, these quick tracks would end just as I was getting into them, thereby inevitably letting me down too quickly. I think Mr Tyler has some good stuff going, but I'd like to see some extended songs that weave his work into a more fluid soundtrack. Granted, action movies are rarely fluid, so it would take a lot of extra work. Hans Zimmer's music is typically of the epic, powerful orchestrated type, using long sweeping songs based on an established theme of some kind, with a high production value as well. I'm certainly willing to try Brian Tyler's more aggressive yet less technical style, but in this case, it just felt too cold and distant for my tastes. In addition, don't waste your time if all you care about is Johnny Cash (though I do love his music), because this song is available on his most excellent latest CD, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
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